James Wan Quotes

#1. When James Wan is out there the horror is real, no doubt about that Check out for own proof if you have guts Sinister 1,2... Insidious 1,2...

Deyth Banger

#2. James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, so far these are the best horror writers, but I will continue searching for other interesting horror and twisted writers even like James Wan.

Deyth Banger

#3. Life consist of motion with purpose

Ayn Rand

#4. One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same time let them know how I plan to shoot the film and just give them an insight into the way I'm thinking, so that when they're acting out their scene, they can kind of see it in their minds' eyes.

James Wan

#5. When you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to, because I'm so movied out, right, I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is with the little spare time that I have is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.

James Wan

#6. We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

James Wan

#7. I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

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#8. I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

James Wan

#9. Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.

James Wan

#10. If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.

James Wan

#11. Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it.

James Wan

#12. Confession Who knows more of Wanda, the wan, than I do? And who knows more of Terry, the torn, than I do? And who knows more than I do of Ziggy, the Zap, fleeing the rap, using his eyes and teeth to spring the trap, than I do! Or did. Good Lord, forbid that morning's acre, held in the palm

James Baldwin

#13. original content Tweets with smiley faces receive 46 percent fewer retweets and 36 percent fewer favorites than content without the emoticons.

Chris Kerns

#14. Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

James Wan

#15. I've been in love for five hundred million years ...

Italo Calvino

#16. I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

James Wan

#17. You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

Patricia Heaton

#18. When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

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#19. don't want to hurt anybody, but I'm desperate to distract Dad and Becky, to stop the thing that's happening.

Gilly Macmillan

#20. We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

James Wan

#21. I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Oriana Fallaci

#22. For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

James Wan

#23. I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

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#24. Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Peter Thiel

#25. Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.

James Wan

#26. There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

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#27. The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.

Alexander Theroux

#28. I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.

Tyler Perry

#29. I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.

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#30. Most of us can be counted on to manage our own undoings.

Michael Cunningham

#31. Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part in telling the story as well, like what I really believe in with all the films I make.

James Wan

#32. I don't understand what people's fascination is with [our] relationship. If we're in the same city, we go out ... Sometimes when I'm in L.A., I stay at his [Ben Affleck's] house. But it's not what people think. We're not together, I swear on my life.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#33. Could Vader actually be Anakin Skywalker? the two men wondered. Based on Obi-Wan's account of what had occurred on Mustafar, Anakin's survival didn't seem possible. But perhaps Obi-Wan had underestimated Anakin. Perhaps Anakin's peerless strength in the Force had allowed him to survive.

James Luceno

#34. And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

James Drummond Burns

#35. You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

Rihanna

#36. For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

James Wan

#37. What makes horror movies work is the idea that "oh my God, what would I do if I were in that situation? How would I get out of that alive? What would I do if I saw the door to my closet creaking open in the middle of the night and a doll on a tricycle comes riding out?"

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